Helping Veterans and Their Families Fight On (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course examines the unique challenges of military life and explores strategies for supporting service members, veterans, and their families. The course highlights the need for military cultural competence.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice.
Reading: Helping Veterans and Their Families Fight On!
Authors: Megan Hazle, Sherrie L. Wilcox, Anthony M. Hassan
Publisher: Advances in Social Work
Find the reading at: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/2051/1965
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to military cultural competence.
Learning Objectives: Describe unique challenges of military life for servicemembers and their families. Describe ‘the Reintegration War’ and ‘Serving with their Servicemember.’ Identify strategies for supporting servicemembers and their families.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.